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• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  . 4.Shawshank Redemption: Napping had second priority behind bets with ... something to do with magnetic monopoles and/or the Freemasons. (As a point of ... .) ((*With the exception of Thank You For Smoking, a film which lulled me into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how ... declaring what I tentatively want to do with my life. This is terrifying. I have ~54% no idea what I want to with my life. Last week, I pretended I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  -12.30 (12-134) or TR1-2.30 (12-134) ______ For students with a special ... . Literary works are read with an emphasis on different forms of autobiography ... conjunction with MIT Rambax drumming group. No previous experience necessary

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  wit, I... Threw a late-night Diablo II LAN party with my fraternity ... game again. Shoot.) Had a quick Starbucks break with Melissa '11 (a ... waiting in line when term actually starts.) Chatted for quite a while with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  'm hunched over on the airport floor. My eyes are glazed with the exhausting combination of spending quality time with my family/staying up late talking to ... flights - zero leg room, back row seating with the constant smell of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  I'll begin with a flashback. Scene: On my way back from my daily ... my UROP advisor, Linda Griffith, with a variety of projects pertaining ... Biological Engineering. I graduated from MIT in June with my BS in Mechanical

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  , but once you do get it, you can fly through the problems with ease and ... everything, along with an excellent teacher, is what got you through AP Calc AB ... you. Behold, a godsend! Kris knows math! Kris can help you with 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... League school, a college with easy access to a beach, or one with a top ... money and a big research grant, and a state-school with a free-ride. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  causal relationship with a dorm's culture. Let me explain... Take the East ... ), with hobbies, decorating styles, and group cultures that reflect this ... , and among the halls and entries in those dorms. With such living group

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... operate, events with free Bertucci's, hallway colloquies at four in the ... sorts of things of interest when you poke them. But along with all the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  proposed to deal with an epidemic that is threatening 600 lives: one program ... separate occasions, many give incompatible responses. When confronted with ... with SAT scores in the 88th percentile (roughly a 1290 old SAT) have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  . as with any piece of writing, there is no obligation to read further if ... relevant to me to the only thing that I talked about with people, the only ... , with stories just like mine. But I’m writing this anyway, if only for the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  had a massive potluck Thanksgiving dinner with our housemaster Nina and ... with my brother from Pennsylvania a week ago and I joined them on ... this year was borscht with garlic and rye bread, turkey with homemade

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  resonated with me and something I could see myself doing that is at least a ... was hit with an equally devastating feeling: I-will-spend-the-rest-of-my ... heavily considered 6-7, but with more and more time to ruminate over the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  from my first sunday roast with some grad school friends and ... part of my research giving them more math materials. i've worked with ... life in this way. and now i'm friends with his partners, and friends of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  general boredom with virtual classes, part of it was me not having a clear ... contained intro-level content i was familiar with, the fourth (film music ... (organic chemistry) was being graded on pass-fail with massive curves. when i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  supermarket and it is absolutely DIVINE with honey"]tea[/annotation] to ... " align="aligncenter" width="1000"] virtual mug of jasmine oolong tea with ... Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  to recovery remains riddled with uncertainties, large and small, but I ... , and we begin singing, a little hesitant, still somewhat unfamiliar with ... time in over a year that I have been able to sing with people, in person

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  , but I’m renting an apartment in Cambridge with two other lovely frosh ... magical. Interacting with humans outside of my family has been a well ... kept coming up and I was basically playing whack-a-mole with the way I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  unruly and fit with my general comportment. Here’s a picture of me from my ... letting my hair do it for me. Here’s a photo of me at nerd camp, with one of ... ;   So nowadays, mostly my relationship with my hair is a relationship

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018